Edgecombe Monument in the Churchyard Adjacent to South Aisle of Church of St Peter is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1987. A C17 Monument.
Edgecombe Monument in the Churchyard Adjacent to South Aisle of Church of St Peter
- WRENN ID
- distant-truss-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1987
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- SX 451 770
- Coordinates
- 50.57275, -4.18874
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Edgecombe monument is a 17th-century ledger stone located in the churchyard adjacent to the south aisle of the Church of St Peter in Lamerton. It is made of slate and features two central panels surrounded by an inscription and a verse. The monument commemorates Thomas Edgecombe and other family members, with the earliest decipherable date being 1675.
Local climate
Edgecombe Monument in the Churchyard Adjacent to South Aisle of Church of St Peter sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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